Making Her Choices

If you think “doing it naturally” is all green smoothies and peaceful morning workouts… this is not that episode. This is the real story. The food scale frustration. The label-reading betrayal. The weeks where nothing...

For years, many of us have been taught to fight our plates, but what if food was never the problem? In this episode, I break down why inflammation, gut health, and cortisol often play a much bigger role in how your body...

The gym didn't fix it. The GLP-1 didn't fix it. Contrave didn't fix it. So I stopped looking for someone else's answer. In this episode, I'm laying out my entire failure timeline — three approaches, three different...

Everybody talks about the medication. Nobody talks about what happens when it doesn't fit your life. In this episode, I'm telling you about my experience with Contrave — the weight management medication that was...

Everybody's whispering about the shot. Your coworker won't say how she lost the weight. Your cousin posted a transformation pic with nothing but a prayer hands emoji. Your group chat has opinions. But nobody — and I...

<p>You can lie to your mirror. You can lie to your doctor. But your hair will tell on you every single time.</p><p>One morning in September 2025, Tawana touched her crown and something was different. Not dramatic. Just...

<p>She's been in the gym since October 2024. Twice a week. Every week. Cardio. Strength. Different machines, different routines. She showed up when she was tired, when her body said no, when nobody was watching and...

<p>She’s a registered nurse with 20+ years in nephrology. She’s read thousands of lab reports for thousands of patients. And then one Tuesday afternoon, she opened her own patient portal — and everything changed.In the...

<p>Sometimes the wake-up call doesn't come gently.</p><p><br></p><p>In this Series 1 finale of Making Her Choices, I get honest about an area of my life that's still a work in progress — my body, my health, and the...

<p>The Serrated Axe Speaks</p><p>She’s been watching from the front row this whole time.</p><p>In this episode of Making Her Choices, the conversation shifts — and for the first time, the axe gets the mic.</p><p>I once...

<p>Why is it so hard to ask for help — even when we clearly need it?</p><p>In this episode of Making Her Choices, I unpack the quiet struggle many strong, independent women face: doing everything alone, even when it’s...

<p>Some grief doesn’t come with a funeral.</p><p>No flowers. No condolences. No clear ending. Just a quiet ache for something that didn’t turn out the way you thought it would.</p><p>In this episode of Making Her...

<p>Money decisions shape more of our lives than we like to admit.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of Making Her Choices, I open up about the financial conversations many women were never taught to have — the emotional...

<p>Sometimes growth doesn’t look like celebration. Sometimes it looks like silence.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of Making Her Choices, I talk about the quiet and complicated reality of outgrowing people — not toxic...

<p>Difficult Women Set Boundaries: How to Set Them, Hold Them, and Stop Apologizing for Having Them</p><p><br></p><p>Being labeled “difficult” often just means you’ve stopped being convenient.</p><p><br></p><p>In this...